Chapter 23 – The Blonde-Haired Female Knight Accepted Me
“Sigh! Wake up! Wake up!”
I quickly opened my eyes to the spirit’s voice ringing in my ears.
“Ugh.”
A golden halo flashing before my eyes. It twinkled and looked like a shining star in the night sky.
“It’s pretty.”
“Me?”
“Uh… Oh!”
In her sleep, she unconsciously spoke as her instincts told her. Then, I came to my senses when I heard a calm voice answering.
“W… Female knight…? What brings you here?”
“I came to say thank you for protecting the princess.”
I rubbed her eyes several times to see if there was a sign in front of her, and it was definitely a female knight.
“But he kept sleeping, so I waited until he woke up.”
“You wasted your time because of me. I’m sorry. I couldn’t sleep last night…”
“I didn’t have to wait too long. It was kind of fun.”
“Fun…?”
“The words he spoke while talking in his sleep were quite interesting.”
“Oh. I didn’t make a mistake, right!?”
“It seems like it happened.”
“I’m sorry if I did that.”
“I’m just kidding. Even if I made a mistake, it’s nothing compared to the fact that I protected the princess. Rather, I came to say thank you, so you don’t have to ask for forgiveness.”
The female knight was waiting for me in my sleep to say thank you.
In fact, she was forced to give up on gaining her rating because she was pushed out by her competitors, but she was glad that they had her back.
“I almost lost the most precious thing I had due to my carelessness. But you protected it and I am truly grateful.”
Seeing her lowering her head and expressing her sincerity, I jumped up from my seat and faced her.
“No… I’m glad it was of some help.”
“If there is anything that makes you uncomfortable at all, please tell me. The princess asked me to take care of you.”
‘Then… Let’s have outdoor sex right away as a thank you!’
It seemed like it was coming out of her mouth.
Just like the image of the female knight I saw on the summoning app before coming here, her loyal appearance disgusted me. So it seemed like she would grant any request to her favored knight.
“Is that so… Then there is something I want.”
“What?”
“I want to see the driver’s hands.”
“My hand?”
She was the employee here who was taken aback when he suddenly said he wanted to see her hands. However, at my simple request, he took off his golden gauntlets and held them out.
“Not pretty hands…”
There were many wounds on my hands. I couldn’t imagine how much effort she put into being a knight.
“Um… Can I try holding it?”
“It’s okay to just catch it.”
She was hurt a lot here, but that made her worth shine even more. Isn’t she a knight of faith who wields her sword for someone?
The warmth she felt as soon as she held her hand. It’s beyond great, it’s ecstatic.
“You have beautiful hands.”
“It’s a handful of scars. It’s not a hand suitable for a woman.”
“Isn’t it a hand that worked hard for someone else? I think the will to change appearance rather than appearance is beautiful.”
An obvious comment a man uses to seduce a woman. But according to my teacher, he advised me that I should do a lot of that cringeworthy stuff. It was said that women might frown at it at first, but as they gradually become more proficient, it becomes natural and even high-ranking women are attracted to it.
“I see.”
She is, after all, a loyal knight. She reacted angrily, as if my clumsy tail-banging didn’t work. It was a vain failure, but she decided to be satisfied with her practice.
“There is something I would like to ask of you.”
“Please tell me as much as you want! I will support you and be with you!”
“You are not with me. However, I would like you to stay by the princess’s carriage until we arrive at the kingdom.”
“Ah. Around the carriage. I understand.”
It’s a shame. I wondered if I could be close to him this time, but it was a vain dream.
“You don’t have to worry too much. I’ll have one more summoner. Do you know anyone who’s good?”
When I looked glum, I guess he thought it would be difficult to stop the carriage alone.
“One more person next to me?”
“It’s going to be hard to fight alone…”
I thought carefully about the female knight’s words. I said that because I remembered the person who came to mind.
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“I thought she didn’t know anything because she was a newbie, but there was this guy who was even worse than her grandfather.”
“You said you would be by my side and protect me, Mr. Hugo.”
“I was just saying that! I really am! Furthermore, I’m so frustrated with this summoning rating!”
The man wearing the fedora frowns as soon as he sees me. I was supposed to get points from the female knight at the front line, but she recommended me to a place near the carriage, so I couldn’t do it.
‘I can’t die alone~’
Mr. Hugo continued to grumble and fiddle with his pistol.
“It’s safe here because there are a lot of soldiers, so let’s go to the kingdom comfortably~”
“You’re making me drink water. I want to shoot your head off right now.”
“Haha. Please take a look at that, Mr. Hugo.”
Afterward, the convoy continued to advance. As it was a notorious forest, monsters continued to appear and people were injured every time there was a battle.
Fortunately, there were no casualties like in the first battle. Mr. Hugo is a skilled gunman, so he aimed and blew away all the incoming projectiles, so I only had to block the destroyed debris.
“Hugo, your shooting skills are a work of art.”
“Of course. Even looking at this, he was the youngest shooting champion.”
“Then can you hit what I throw?”
“Heh. Just give it a try, and I’ll fix it all.”
After using blood magic to create the memorization tool used by Angelica, he threw it into the sky.
Then he immediately pulled the trigger of the pistol and hit the target.
“Oh!”
Even if I threw it again, I hit the memorization accurately.
-Clap.
Then I raised my hands.
“Were you a vampire…”
It was because I felt the muzzle of a gun on the side of my head.
“I’m not a vampire! I’m an ordinary person who uses blood magic!”
“… Well, if I had seen someone sucking blood, my device would have reacted right away.”
This is Mr. Hugo putting away the muzzle. I lowered my hands with a sigh of relief.
“It looks like Hugo hates vampires.”
“I owe those bastards. I became a vampire hunter to repay them in the same way.”
This is Mr. Hugo, who says he grabbed the gun for revenge. When I first saw him, I thought he didn’t have a dark side because he looked so bright, but in reality, his smiling face was a mask to hide his sad past.
“Do you even find and kill vampires from other worlds?”
“Just tell me. Even if you’re not a vampire in my world, I’ll come and blow your head off.”
“Haha. No.”
Even though it was a different world, I felt like I had to protect the word of Professor Scarlett until the grave.
“I can see the golden wall!!”
It’s been a week since I left and stayed with Mr. Hugo. If it’s long, if it’s long, if it’s short, if it’s short, the mission has finally come to an end.
“Ugh!! Have we finally arrived~!”
Mr. Hugo stretched and smiled? I was so happy to hear the soldiers shouting, “Golden Castle Wall.”
Anyway, after sleeping in the open for three meals a day, fighting, and dealing with monsters for a week, I was able to arrive at the Golden Kingdom.
“Open the castle gate! The great princess has arrived!”
As we arrived at the castle gate, the female knight’s loud voice echoed through the castle walls. At her word, the gate opened, and many people began to cheer.
As the long procession of guards enters the castle, everyone around them welcomes them by throwing flower petals into the sky.
When we arrived at our destination, the king wearing a golden crown appeared.
“Ah…! That’s great! With this, we!…”
It was a group of guards who entered the castle, praised as heroes, after enduring the king’s long and tedious speech.
“When will the knight commander be compensated?”
“We will pay you right away for your hard work.”
The woman holding the cigarette pipe and smiling sinisterly even hugged her arm as if she had become friendly with the person living here.
She was envious of the person here who treated her warmly and didn’t react in any way. If she had been strong, she would have stood at the forefront and shown her manly side.
Is this what it feels like to lose the woman you love, whom you only heard about? Of course, we were the same gender, but I couldn’t help but feel jealous.
“Newbie, what is your reward?”
“Me? I just. Don’t have any money haha.”
“You want to get some gold bars? Well, when you first write a book, money comes first. I remember the first time I wrote it too. Hehe.”
Mr. Hugo looked at me with longing eyes, as if he was remembering the past. Then she took out some of her small candies from her pocket, looked at them, and smiled at me.
“Newbie, take this.”
She looked at Mr. Hugo blankly as he caught the flying candy with both hands.
“This is.”
“I was about to throw it away, so take it.”
“Mr. Hugo. What is this?”
“Try it. Your stuffy body will feel a little faster.”
At Hugo’s words, I opened a piece of candy and put it in my mouth. Then the candy melted and disappeared in my mouth.
And I definitely felt a change in my body. My body became lighter and objects in front of me seemed closer.
“It’s a hawk’s candy with a rating of 30 points. As a newbie, you’ll need an increase in stats more than anything else.”
As Hugo said, I checked with the summoning app and my agility increased by 10.
“Wow.Thank you, Hugo! I love you!”
“Ugh. Gross. Damn. Don’t die in vain. Survive till the end and get what you want.”
“Yes! I’ll use it well!”
“Haha, oh my~ I’m the only one who can help newbies~”
After saying that, Mr. Hugo turned around and walked towards the female knight.
I was alone and only fiddled with the candy bag.
I can’t believe I get stat items here. I couldn’t even think of a dream. It’s as if the game was being tricked into giving items to beginners who don’t know anything.
Even though I couldn’t join the female knight, joining Mr. Hugo was the best choice.
‘Okay, then I get the blonde sister’s love!’
I came to my senses and approached the place where the summoners were gathered.
“Eveline… Is it really okay to use that door?”
“Oh, this is enough~ I really needed this door because my lab door got blown off during an experiment. I’ll go then~ If you need anything, please call me anytime, driver~”
“Thank you, Evelyn.”
At that moment, Auntie Evelyn, who had called me ‘brother’, disappeared right before her eyes, holding up her huge door.
All the summoners received their rewards one by one and then disappeared.
‘Hmm… The line is a bit long… I’d like to go somewhere else and look around.’
The road is long. It seemed like it would take quite a while since everyone wanted different rewards.
I left the line after seeing Mr. Hugo disappear in the distance holding a golden apple.
Anyway, I decided to wait slowly and look around the golden castle since the reward was only possible if I was alone with the female knight.
“User, is there anything I can help you with?”
While going on an adventure inside the castle. A woman in a golden dress found me and approached me.
“No, there were a lot of people receiving compensation, so I was waiting and looking around the castle.”
“I see~”
As I had passed through the dangerous forest with the princess, the beauty I had never seen looked at me with good eyes.
“If you feel unwell or are hungry, you can at least eat and return to the original world.”
“It’s food… I was hungry at the time, so it was good.”
As it was a kingdom with a lot of gold, the treatment given to summoners was also special. Since I was preparing food, I decided to go straight to the restaurant.
“Do you know where the restaurant is?”
“I will guide you. Follow me.”
